Tropical Dry Forests in Multi-functional Landscapes: Agroforestry Systems for Conservation and Livelihoods

Montes-Londoño, Irene

doi:10.1007/978-3-319-69371-2_3

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“…They are traditionally employed by smallholder farmers throughout the tropics and promoted as a sustainable livelihood alternative by land use managers and international development efforts [60,62]. Examples of AFS include home-gardens, silvopastoral systems, and other shaded tree-crop systems, such as cocoa agroforestry systems [63]. AFS show, among others, positive effects on biodiversity conservation and climate change adaptation and mitigation, as well as sustainable rural livelihoods [64][65][66].…”

Section: Production Scheme: Agroforestrymentioning

confidence: 99%

Social Cohesion as the Missing Link between Natural Resource Management and Peacebuilding: Lessons from Cocoa Production in Côte d’Ivoire and Colombia

Löhr

Aruqaj

Baumert³

et al. 2021

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Social cohesion plays a key role in processes of peacebuilding and sustainable development. Fostering social cohesion might present a potential to enhance the connection of natural resource management and peacebuilding and better functioning of sustainable land use systems. This contribution explores the nexus between social cohesion, natural resource management, and peacebuilding. We do so by (1) reviewing literature on the three concepts and (2) studying four different key action areas in the context of sustainable cocoa production for their potential to enhance social cohesion, namely (a) agroforestry; (b) cooperatives; (c) certification schemes; and (d) trade policies. Research is based on experience from cocoa production in two post-conflict countries, Côte d’Ivoire and Colombia. Our findings show that by fostering environmentally sustainable agricultural practices, these key action areas have a clear potential to foster social cohesion among cocoa producers and thus provide a valuable contribution to post-conflict peacebuilding in both countries. However, the actual effects strongly depend on a multitude of local factors which need to be carefully taken into consideration. Further, the focus in implementation of some of these approaches tends to be on increasing agricultural productivity and not directly on fostering cocoa farmers’ wellbeing and societal relations, and hence a shift toward social objectives is needed in order to strengthen these approaches as a part of overall peacebuilding strategies.

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Section: Production Scheme: Agroforestrymentioning

confidence: 99%

Social Cohesion as the Missing Link between Natural Resource Management and Peacebuilding: Lessons from Cocoa Production in Côte d’Ivoire and Colombia

Löhr

Aruqaj

Baumert³

et al. 2021

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“…Therefore, AFSs involve the management of both wild and domesticated plants and other organisms within and around cultivated fields [27,29], offering benefits to the people who manage them by providing a diversity of products for subsistence and local economies [27][28][29][30]. By maintaining native species, AFSs contribute to the conservation of regional biodiversity [27][28][29][30][31][32] and promote connectivity among populations, communities, and ecological processes [31,33,34]. Given these attributes, AFSs have considerable potential to contribute to ecosystem regeneration in areas that were previously destined for agriculture and other disturbed environments [33][34][35].…”

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confidence: 99%

“…By maintaining native species, AFSs contribute to the conservation of regional biodiversity [27][28][29][30][31][32] and promote connectivity among populations, communities, and ecological processes [31,33,34]. Given these attributes, AFSs have considerable potential to contribute to ecosystem regeneration in areas that were previously destined for agriculture and other disturbed environments [33][34][35].…”

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Secondary Succession in Fallow Agroforestry Systems Managed in Tropical Dry Forest in Western Mexico

Pacheco-Flores,

Casas,

Moreno-Calles

et al. 2024

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Tropical dry forests (TDFs) are ecosystems of high biocultural value, in which agroforestry systems (AFSs) have been essential in their management and conservation. We aimed to characterize agroforestry practices and analyze their capacity to conserve perennial plant diversity. In addition, we sought to evaluate how the management of TDFs as AFSs, together with their regeneration, influences species diversity and vegetation structure in a landscape with AFSs and TDFs in different conservation states. We compared the species diversity and basal area (BA) of plants in active and fallow AFSs at different regeneration stages in Zacualpan, Colima, Mexico. We found that AFSs harbored 71% of species richness (0D), forming a mosaic that contributed to the gamma diversity (124 species) of TDFs in the area. AFSs supported 23 endemic and 12 protected species. TDFs, active and advanced regeneration AFSs, had the highest number of useful species and diversity. Species richness (0D) in management categories increased as succession progressed, but not the BA, possibly due to frequent browsing and wood and firewood extraction. However, BA may be related to the management of useful trees maintained through agroforestry practices. We suggest increasing the matrix quality through a mosaic of active and fallow AFSs to promote ecological connectivity and biodiversity conservation.

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“…Depending on the magnitude and extent of human influence, forest ecosystem conditions differ across forest types [13,[17][18][19]. Wiersum et al [15] has identified three types of forest with conservation importance in a "nature-culture continuum."…”

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Woody Plant Conservation Value of Three Contrasting Forest Management Regimes in Southwest Ethiopia

Kebebew

Ozanne

2022

Forests

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The future of the Afromontane forest of southwest Ethiopia is highly influenced by coffee management intensity. The study was conducted to investigate the woody species conservation value of a human-modified forest in southwest Ethiopia. We assessed woody species composition, regeneration and forest stand structure across three different management regimes (i.e., natural forest, coffee forest and coffee agroforest using 189 plots of 400 m2 (20 m × 20 m). A total of 64 species belonging to 33 families were identified and recorded across the three forest management regimes. About 83% of the recorded woody species were maintained in the coffee agroforest. The three forest types shared 61% of the recorded woody species. The coffee agroforest had maintained four strata or layers of stand structure. Nevertheless, the total abundance, density and basal area of woody species decreased from the natural forest to coffee forest and coffee agroforest. The Analysis of Similarity (ANOSIM) showed significant difference between the natural forest, coffee forest and coffee agroforest (Global RAnosim = 0.36, p < 0.001). Similar regeneration patterns were recorded under the forest management regimes. Coffee agroforests simplify the woody plant composition and stand structure of the Afromontane forest in southwest Ethiopia.

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Tropical Dry Forests in Multi-functional Landscapes: Agroforestry Systems for Conservation and Livelihoods

Cited by 10 publications

References 70 publications

Social Cohesion as the Missing Link between Natural Resource Management and Peacebuilding: Lessons from Cocoa Production in Côte d’Ivoire and Colombia

Social Cohesion as the Missing Link between Natural Resource Management and Peacebuilding: Lessons from Cocoa Production in Côte d’Ivoire and Colombia

Secondary Succession in Fallow Agroforestry Systems Managed in Tropical Dry Forest in Western Mexico

Woody Plant Conservation Value of Three Contrasting Forest Management Regimes in Southwest Ethiopia

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